Re: Replacing strbuf_getline_lf() by strbuf_getline() in wt-status.c

Moritz Neeb [off-list ref] writes:

Currently I am working on replacing strbuf_getline_lf() by
strbuf_getline() in places where the input is trimmed immediately after
reading, cf. $gmane/284104, "Notes on the remaining strbuf_getline_lf()
callers", 2nd point.

One instance I found was in wt-status.c. In read_rebase_todolist() the
lines are read, checked for a comment_line_char and then trimmed. I
wonder why the input is not trimmed before checking for this character?
Is it safe to replace strbuf_getline_lf() by strbuf_getline() anyway?

The only case I can imagine that could lead to unexpected behaviour then
would be when someone sets the comment_line_char to CR. How likely is that?

Why is the trim after checking for the comment char anyway? Should
something like "   # foobar" not be considered as comment?

That is debatable, I would think, as "git commit" and others do not
generally accept a line that does not begin with a comment char as a
comment.

I however think we made an exception for the rebase-i's insn file
due to a mistake we made long time ago that allowed such line,
caused people to build a workflow around the assumption that it is
OK to prefix a comment line with whitespaces.

  Cf. the last paragraph of 1db168ee (rebase-i: loosen over-eager
      check_bad_cmd check, 2015-10-01).

  Cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/278841

So we probably want to be consistent with that in this codepath.